Israeli Elections Won’t End Oppression in Palestine/Israel

by Amer ShurrabOctober 26, 2015

Counting on a “left-wing” election victory to produce change in Israeli policy is naïve. A quick review of history reveals that Labor governments not only have led most of Israel’s wars against its neighbors, but also spearheaded settlement expansion in the West Bank. Labor leaders, including David Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres, have presided over countless massacres and war crimes. Moreover, Israeli society has been shifting to the far right, so much so that Ariel Sharon became a centrist figure and Tzipi Livni is now a left-wing leader. It is therefore critical to understand the core issues of the conflict in order to move forward in a productive way.

Before one begins to explore solutions to any given issue, one must explore all dimensions of the problem: not only how it manifests on the surface, but also the structural framework that allows the problem to persist.

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Amer Shurrab is a human rights advocate from Gaza, Palestine, based in New York. He has spoken on college campuses and in communities across the United States about the atrocities and oppression of the Israeli Occupation in Palestine.